Nahum 3:17 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹⁷ Your court officials are like the swarming locust, and your scribes like clouds of locusts, which settle on the walls on a cold day; when the sun rises, they take off, and no one knows where they are.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ Your princes are like the grasshoppers and your marshals like the swarms of locusts which encamp in the hedges on a cold day–but when the sun rises, they fly away, and no one knows where they are.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ Thy princes are as the locusts, and thy marshals as the swarms of grasshoppers, which encamp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ Your guards are like grasshoppers, your marshals like swarms of cicadas that encamp on stone fences on a chilly day; when the sun rises, they take flight; no one knows where they have gone.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ Your guardians are like locusts, and your little ones are like locusts among locusts, which alight on hedges on a cold day. The sun rose up, and they flew away, and there was no way to know the place where they had been.

Nahum 3:17 Cross References

Jeremiah 51:27

Raise a signal flag  in the land; blow a ram’s horn among the nations; set apart the nations against her. Summon kingdoms against her – Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a marshal against her; bring up horses like a swarm  of locusts.

Ezekiel 31:12

Foreigners, ruthless men from the nations,  cut it down and left it lying. Its limbs fell on the mountains and in every valley; its boughs lay broken in all the earth’s ravines. All the peoples of the earth left its shade and abandoned it.

Nahum 2:9

‘Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold! ’ There is no end to the treasure, an abundance of every precious thing.

Revelation 9:7

The appearance of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle.  Something like golden crowns was on their heads; their faces were like human faces;